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Re:Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins by maxerickson on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @05:03PM (#6931172)
What should happen is that people should notice that they do not have a reliable process for either delivering the coins or canceling the transaction (if the coins cannot be delivered within some reasonable period of time).

This sort of settlement process is a scary thing to throw very much money at.

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Re:Sent $35,104.11 USD to CoinBase. Never received Bitcoins by patmcc on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @05:16PM (#6931260)
Oh, absolutely this should give people pause at spending $35k at coinbase (or on bitcoins period). Or, rather, maybe people should stop massive speculation on bitcoins on a platform that takes at least a few days (best case) to clear.
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